Maybe OP believes every town in the US has exactly 1 church and 2 homeless people and is mildly infuriated that the church doesn’t allow the 2 homeless people to live there?
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asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 6 months ago
just 2 people
What does this mean?
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
lemming934@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
I think OP believes every town in the US has twice as many homeless people as churches, it doesnt need to be exactly 1 church and 2 homeless people.
But either way, that’s probably not true. Since homeless people tend to be in larger cities.
But then again, lots of people become homless in the suburbs and then move to the city to get the social services. If churches in the suburbs housed a few people as they become homeless, it would probably help. It’s better to keep people in their communities so they have a better chance of returning to housefullness.
But probably not that much, since homelessness rates are strongly correlated with housing prices, so expensive cities create more homelessness than cheap suburbs.
RHOPKINS13@kbin.social 6 months ago
Not sure why you'd think OP is saying 1 church per town. Just that there are ~380k churches in the United States, and less than twice as many homeless people.
I agree, far too many people are left out in the cold at night when we have many public, climate-controlled buildings with working bathrooms and possibly even showers that are empty after a certain hour. If the homeless were able to regularly get a good night's sleep and a shower in, they might be more able to hold down jobs and become contributing members of society again.
Schools certainly would be great as a shelter after hours, most have gyms with showers, possibly laundry machines, and certainly ample space for someone to sleep with a sleeping bag. If we could just figure out a way to make sure everything stays clean for students to use the next day, no left-behind drugs, no vandalism, etc. that could be a wonderful solution.
My guess is that in most places the homeless population would easily fit within the gymnasium alone.
JargonWagon@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They’re implying that there are two homeless people for every church and that every church should house two homeless people to solve homelessness. Not agreeing with OP, just trying to answer your question.
kent_eh@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
and that every church should house two homeless people
Not even directly house. Even helping support those 2 people would go a long way toward demonstrating that churches actually do some good.
qooqie@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’m also confused by what the image itself is trying to say
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 months ago
If you take 2 of every homeless person in the US into one of every church in the US, there would be no more homeless people in the US.
I am mildly infuriated at just how many people here are not understanding this.
dlpkl@lemmy.world 6 months ago
There’s only two more homeless people than churches in the United States. If we make every homeless person a church, we can also have more churches.
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
If every church houses two homeless people, no more homeless people.
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Assuming the distribution is the same for both
huginn@feddit.it 6 months ago
(it’s not)
But the point is not invalid. It’s a problem that seems insurmountable but can definitely be tackled.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
Although homeless people absolutely can and do migrate. They prefer cities for somewhat similar reasons to everyone else, and with no place they are allowed to live why not go for somewhere with lots of opportunities and shorter walks?